Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper explores the nature of multiple sluicing in English, which has two or more remnant wh-phrases in clause edge position.At the beginning part of the paper we argue against Nishigauchi's (1998) and Lasnik's (2007) Gapping analysis of multiple sluicing, which says that two remnant wh-phrases each actually occupies the left and right edge of a clause, with the in-between string of words undergoing Gapping.We rather argue that multiple sluicing in English is the same kind as found in Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian.In other words, multiple sluicing in English is also derived by multiple wh-fronting which otherwise does not apply.We demonstrate that some important properties of the construction noted by Lasnik (2007) under the Gapping approach to it can be accounted for in a principled way by our proposed analysis.
Authors: Myung-Kwan Park, Jungmin Kang
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2181089376